Sorry, pointLabel() is in the package "maptools": http://rgm2.lab.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/R_man-2.9.0/library/maptools/man/pointLabel.html
Thank you for the tips on the other packages, I will give it a try. -C On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Greg Snow <greg.s...@imail.org> wrote: > What package is pointLabel (or is it pointLabels) in? giving a > reproducible example includes stating packages other than the standard ones. > > What you are trying to do is not simple for general cases, some tools work > better on some datasets, but others work better on other datasets. > > Some other tools that may help (but you will probably need to do some hand > tweaking after using them, or basing your solution on these) could be: > > thigmophobe.labels in the plotrix package > spread.labels in the plotrix package > TkIdentify in the TeachingDemos package > spread.labs in the TeachingDemos package > > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > greg.s...@imail.org > 801.408.8111 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > > project.org] On Behalf Of Craig Starger > > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:38 PM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] Need help with pointLabels() > > > > Hello R-list, > > > > I am plotting a weighted linear regression in R. The points on my chart > > are > > also scaled to sample size, so some points are large, some are small. I > > have > > figured out everything I need using the plot() function: how to plot > > the > > points, scale them by sample size, weight the linear regression by > > sample > > size, plot that line, and plot the labels for the points. However, > > although > > the pointLabel() function assures that the labels do not overlap with > > each > > other, they still overlap with the larger points, and sometimes run off > > the > > side of the chart too. I have tried saving the plot as EPS, PDF, SVG > > and > > opening them in GIMP to try to move the text around, but GIMP does not > > recognize the text as text, so I cannot select the labels and move them > > off > > the points. I have tried various "offsets" too but that does not work > > either. So I need to either (a) print the labels on the plot so that > > they do > > not overlap the points or (b) be able to move the text around in the > > resulting image file. Any advice? Here is the code I am using. BTW, I > > have > > also tried ggplot2 but it has no function (that I am aware of) like > > pointLabels() to avoid label overlap. Please feel free to email me > > directly. > > > > postscript(file="fig_a.eps"); > > plot(x, y, xlab="X-axis", ylab="Y-axis", cex=0.02*sample_size, pch=21); > > abline(lm(y~x, weight=sample_size)) > > pointLabel(x, y, labels=Category, cex=1, doPlot=TRUE, offset=2.5); > > dev.off() > > > > Thank you, > > > > -craig.star...@gmail.com > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > > guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
